While the TourWrist team is laser-focused on helping travelers make more confident booking decisions – we’re often asked about the potential for use in other verticals such as education, real estate, autos and boats. In short, we see the potential too. In this post, we’re highlighting what’s possible purely within the news media space. Namely, [...]
The following piece by TourWrist Founder and CEO Charles Armstrong was first published by VentureBeat on March 28th, 2013. [VentureBeat invited Charles to share his perspective on the year 2020 as well as participate in its by-invitation-only VentureBeat Mobile Summit (April 1-2) i Sausalito, CA. - – - Running a mobile–centric platform, I’m completely inspired [...]
Supplementing my previous post where I shared this year’s presentation to the IVRPA, I wanted to share the previous presentation I did for this same group as TourWrist was preparing for primetime. For me, it’s fascinating to see how well we’ve stayed on track, and how far pano adoption has come in such a short [...]
This week, I had the privilege of presenting to the International VR Photography Association at their annual conference, hosted this year in New York City. This is a group of some of the nicest, most talented creative professionals on the planet. As this is the second year that I’ve presented to them, I count myself [...]
Buckle your seat belts. TourWrist is about to go into warp speed! TourWrist won the DEMO Spring 2012 People’s Choice Award which includes $1 million IDG Media Prize – and TourWrist Founder and CEO Charles Armstrong was honored as a DEMOgod. Moments after TourWrist won top honors Thursday (4/19/12) from among 73 demonstrators, VentureBeat wrote: [...]
Without perspective, we wander, recording linear stories limited by the physical constraints of travel. “I was there, this happened. Then I went here, and now something else is happening.” But imagine a future where anywhere at anytime, can be recalled — or delivered — anywhere, anytime. When the visceral, tactile, and immersive qualities of a [...]
2012 is the year that shooting and sharing panos goes mainstream was a theme we picked up on while presenting TourWrist to the technocrati attending the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. In addition to the mobile pano initiatives by Apple, Google, Microsoft and TourWrist, add this week’s announcement of the Tamaggo 360-imager at CES. The cute, [...]
Microsoft has long been developing a technology called Photosynth, which empowers smartphone users to shoot panoramas. Just recently, Google joined the pursuit, providing a similar photographic technology to all Android 4.0 handsets. And now, it appears that Apple is joining the race. While a less compelling form of evidence was exposed several months ago, significant [...]